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Re:Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider by EMM_386 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:25PM (#27009513)
In that thread, they do the math on Chia's current effect, and it is tiny.

Not to say it won't grow to become a problem but even at 1EB of storage, it's not a problem:

> Data center storage growth is round 2-2.5 EB/day. The 1.4 EB used by Chia so far is less than one day's data center growth.

I'm not defending yet another wasteful use of cryptocurrency ... first it was the GPUs now its the SSDs.

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Re:Thoughts on a “HDD shortage” from an industry insider by seanalexander on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:30PM (#27009555)
Until we live in some horrid future where computers no longer have storage and we all use the cloud, consumers need to buy HDDs too. Not just data centers. This is a retail-level issue, not a data center growth issue. It's the same as how GPUs aren't on shelves because people use them to mine -- ASICs are better but the ASIC game is hard for retail "miners" to get into.
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